need help connecting

Forum: Networking
Topic: need help connecting
started by: microsoftbaby

Posted by microsoftbaby on Jan. 02 2006,22:48

i just got dsl linux and have never used linux before i'm figuring it out ok but can not figur out how to configure my wirless card. i have a belkin fsd7010 card and when i boot it finds it and auto configs and under my card manager it shows the card and all kinds of info about it. i coulden't connect to the internet so i look in the forums and found i need to install a file I got the file but now what do i do with it? i'm booting from a live cd.

Posted by microsoftbaby on Jan. 04 2006,15:12

Does any one know what to do?

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 05 2006,18:28

According to this guy, it is possible to get this card to work with the NDISWRAPPER utility and your Microsoft Windows driver file:

# Card: Belkin F5D7010 54g (802.11g and 802.11b capable) 32-bit CardBus wireless card

* Chipset: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
* pciid: 14e4:4320 (rev 03)
* Driver: files/Drivers/WinMe98/bcmwl5a.inf on installation CD (WinXP2K/bcmwl5.inf did NOT work, and fewer errors were printed when running ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf in the same directory as bcmwl5.sys - don't know if that's strictly necessary)
* Other: See [Distributions] for details on this Fedora Core 3 install. Using ndiswrapper 0.12. For kernels newer than 2.6.9-1.681_FC3, I had to upgrade to ndiswrapper 1.1 (final). -- Beland

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